Senior Systems Engineer - Enterprise Security

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Bristol and abroad

Salary: £neg. depending on experience

Our client is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Our client is the largest inward investor in the UK defence sector, and one of the biggest suppliers of defence equipment to the UK MoD.

Headquartered in Europe, they have over 45,600 employees. With its offices and industrial plants, the Company is present in 180 sites worldwide in addition to strategic partnerships in the most important high potential international markets.

What’s in it for you?

25 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Award-winning pension scheme

Flexible working and additional flex-leave schemes

Salary sacrifice schemes including childcare voucher scheme

Generous relocation package

Onsite Occupational Health Service

Onsite shops and restaurant facilities

Employee discount schemes

Learning & Development budgets

Career break scheme

Reserve Forces support

The Role:

The client requires a Senior Systems Engineer with experience of Secure Infrastructure implementation to join its Enterprise Security Engineering Team based in Bristol. The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience within a previous systems engineering role, preferably working in a secure environment. The successful candidate will be a member of a specialised engineering team that is responsible for the ongoing systems engineering efforts across multiple active projects and bids and the candidate should be comfortable working on multiple systems engineering lifecycle phases including architectural design, detailed system/subsystem design, implementation and customer facing testing. The successful candidate must have a strong all-round technical ability with an excellent working knowledge of network and systems infrastructure technologies. Current ongoing projects will require an awareness of cyber security capabilities, and an understanding of enabling security lockdown controls to pass system accreditation.

Key Responsibility Areas

Able to understand, interpret and engineer complex and often conflicting customer requirements

To be able to expand a high-level design into a low-level design using technical experience, judgement and best practice

Able to confidently select the best approach, tools and products for a given task and justify these choices

Development of systems engineering artefacts, including documentation to support the delivery and maintenance of system solutions

Provide specialist technical support to the business unit, supporting the project or wider programme (potential involvement in bid development/evaluation)

Work with external third parties such as vendors / resellers, to develop robust & costed solutions

Previous experience of working within secure / isolated / air gapped environments.

Personal Attributes

Candidates will possess the following personal characteristics

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to work under broad direction, with minimal supervision, in challenging technical environments

Ability to work as part of a team

Ability to manage workload in pressurised environments, across multiple tasks, whilst balancing time and quality.

Strives for excellence in engineering activities, both personally and professionally.

Personable and flexible, willing to work in a highly focused and demanding environment

Ability to communicate technical solutions to both technical and nontechnical audience

Highly motivated, with the aptitude to learn new skills

Ability to be innovative

Intrinsic Factors

Demanding Work Environments

Security clearances to SC minimum

Whilst you will have our Bristol office as a base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as client projects can at times require you to work away from home during the week (Mon-Fri). If you are proactive, enthusiastic and comfortable with working in a complex, fast moving environment, then please apply for this role.